World University Rankings By Subject 2025: Top 10 Positions Dominated By US Universities
US universities have shined in the World University Rankings By Subject 2025 as 8 positions out of the top 10 are taken by the US universities. Also, Harvard University has topped the overall ranking and it has topped in Engineering, Life Sciences, and Law.
Study in US: THE has released the World University Rankings By Subject 2025. US universities have performed extremely well in the ranking. Harvard University has topped the overall rankings. Massachusetts Institute of Technology has topped in arts while traditionally it is known to be best in Engineering, Science, Technology, and Mathematics. The university is also the top university for the Business and Economics and Social Sciences. It scored high in the Industry, Research Quality, and Research Environment. MIT has scored highest in Teaching followed by Research Quality. California Institute of Technology has topped in Physical Sciences.
11 Subject Criteria Of World University Rankings By Subject 2025
The universities were evaluated in the following subjects: Education Studies, Computer Science, Business and Economics, Arts and Humanities, Law, Engineering, Medical and Health, Life Sciences, Psychology, Political Sciences, and Social Sciences.
In arts after MIT, Harvard is in 5th place. US universities have performed well in the Engineering category where the top 10 overall positions are mostly captured by the US universities - Harvard at the top in Engineering followed by Stanford (2), MIT (3), University of California (5), California Institute of Technology (7), and Princeton University at 8th position. In Medical and Health Sciences, Harvard is at second position overall, Johns Hopkins University at 5th, Stanford =6, Yale =6, and University of Pennsylvania at 10th overall.
Top 100 US Universities In World University Rankings By Subject 2025
| Rank |
Name |
|---|---|
| Country/Region |
|
| 1 |
Harvard University |
| United States |
|
| 3 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| United States |
|
| 5 |
Stanford University |
| United States |
|
| 6 |
Yale University |
| United States |
|
| 7 |
Princeton University |
| United States |
|
| 8 |
University of California, Berkeley |
| United States |
|
| 9 |
Johns Hopkins University |
| United States |
|
| 10 |
California Institute of Technology |
| United States |
|
| 14 |
Columbia University |
| United States |
|
| 16 |
University of Pennsylvania |
| United States |
|
| 18 |
Cornell University |
| United States |
|
| 19 |
The University of Chicago |
| United States |
|
| 22 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
| United States |
|
| 23 |
Duke University |
| United States |
|
| 24 |
University of Washington |
| United States |
|
| 25 |
University of California, San Diego |
| United States |
|
| 27 |
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| United States |
|
| 28 |
University of California, Davis |
| United States |
|
| 38 |
Washington University in St Louis |
| United States |
|
| 41 |
New York University |
| United States |
|
| 44 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| United States |
|
| 50 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| United States |
|
| 51 |
Northwestern University |
| United States |
|
| 58 |
University of Massachusetts |
| United States |
|
| 64 |
Boston University |
| United States |
|
| 67 |
University of Florida |
| United States |
|
| 68 |
Emory University |
| United States |
|
| 68 |
Vanderbilt University |
| United States |
|
| 73 |
Purdue University West Lafayette |
| United States |
|
| 84 |
University of Minnesota |
| United States |
|
| 86 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| United States |
|
| 88 |
University of Southern California |
| United States |
|
| 91 |
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus |
| United States |
|
| 94 |
Michigan State University |
| United States |
|
| 101–125 |
Brown University |
| United States |
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